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In the General History of Nature and Theory of the Heavens (1755), Kant laid out the Nebular hypothesis, in which he deduced that the Solar System formed from a large cloud of gas, a nebula. He thus attempted to explain the order of the solar system, seen previously by Newton as being imposed from the beginning by God. Kant's theory suggested that as this nebula rotated and contracted, rings of gas were cast off at various stages from which the planets subsequently condensed.